Most students escaped through a back door, according to a local official. The father of a student said the shooter entered his daughter’s classroom, then fired at her teacher and classmates as they ducked under their desks. “He said that after committing (the crime) he was caught by fear and panic and funny breathing, and that it was the right thing to call the police and report the event.” “The child who committed the crime said when he called the police that he shot some people in the school and that … he is a psychopath who needs to calm down,” Milic told state television station RTS. Authorities also received a call reporting the shooting two minutes earlier. The assailant called police himself after the shooting was over. Two children remained in serious condition after hourslong surgeries, doctors said later Wednesday. Six children and a teacher were also hospitalized. “As soon as she did not answer, I knew it was over.” Radicevic did not provide Ana’s full name or age. Ana was near the school entrance when the assailant shot the school guard, “and then he shot at my Ana,” Radicevic said. Ljiljana Radicevic told The Associated Press that her granddaughter was also killed in the shooting. The victims included a girl with French citizenship, French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne-Claire Legendre said in a statement. Seven girls and one boy were killed, he said. He then entered a history classroom close to the school entrance and opened fire again, Milic said. The shooter killed a school guard and then three students in a hallway of the Vladislav Ribnikar school in central Belgrade, according to senior police official Veselin Milic. No mass shootings have been reported at Serbian schools in recent years.

Mass shootings are extremely rare in the Balkan region, although Serbia is awash in guns left over from the wars of the 1990s. He killed eight fellow students and a guard before calling the police and being arrested.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - A 13-year-old who opened fire Wednesday at his school in Serbia’s capital drew sketches of classrooms and made a list of children he intended to target in a meticulously planned attack, police said.

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